Satellite RBS50 - Solid White Light

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MyOrbi system (RBR50 &amp; 1 RBS50) has been running well for about a year.&nbsp; Got back from vacation and found the satellite was no longer talking to the router. Various reboots later, still nothing.&nbsp; Upon power up, the ring goes solid white, and that's it.Reset only works when powering on with the reset switch pressed.&nbsp; Pressing the reset switch when the satellite is already on does nothing.To my&nbsp;somewhat&nbsp;knowledgeable eye, it seems as if the CPU is locking up shortly after booting.The router is running V2.0.0.74.&nbsp; Apparently it updated while we were gone.&nbsp; That would be my top guess as the cause of the failure.It's obviously out of warranty, so it seems NetGear won't talk to me without me paying them more money.&nbsp; And my pessimistic&nbsp;side believes&nbsp;they are going to say, "sorry.&nbsp; You need to replace it".&nbsp; Not going to happen, especially if it's because of a firmware update.&nbsp; That leaves the community here as my only option.&nbsp; Hopefully someone has an idea how to get it going again.&nbsp; For example, is there any way to connect to the satellite directly to try to reload the firmware?&nbsp; That&nbsp;all I can think of to do.&nbsp; Otherwise, time to spend my cash again, on something that will work longer than a year :(&nbsp;Thanks for any ideas you might have,&nbsp;Mark&nbsp;&nbsp;

st_shaw · Answer

I assume you've tried to re-pair the sat, tried to connect to sat via an Ethernet cable and log into the GUI, verified the sat FW matches the router, etc.
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If you've done all that and the sat is bricked, then you could search on here for usng TFTP to reload firmware on Netgear&nbsp;routers. &nbsp;I've used it to unbrick&nbsp;other Netgear routers, but never had to do it with Orbi.

merlin309 · Answer

&nbsp;Thanks for the suggestions...&nbsp;I've re-paired many, many times, moved the satellite within 5 feet of the router, with no luck.&nbsp; I still just get a very dim nightlight :(&nbsp;I connected an ethernet cable between the computer and the satellite.&nbsp; The only way I get a network connection is to reboot the satellite with the reset button pressed until the power light turns orange.&nbsp; The computer then sees a network come and go about 5 or 6 times, until the network stays.&nbsp;The computer got the default address of 169.254.13.89, and of course I have no idea what the satellite IP address is.&nbsp; So I downloaded and installed a dchp service and tried again.&nbsp; But still no clue, and every address on the subnet I tried pinging it came back with Destination host unreachable, and every address I tried looking for the GUI failed too (though I didn't try all 255 other addresses!)&nbsp;Admittedly my networking skills aren't at the pro level (I'm just a really experience software developer), but I kind of think I need an IP address on the satellite before I can try anything else, and it appears I can't even get that.&nbsp;Mark&nbsp;

st_shaw · Answer

Set your computer to a static IP, like 192.168.1.10. You could try 192.168.1.250 as the default IP for the router IP and see if that works.
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TFTP instructions here: &nbsp;https://kb.netgear.com/22688/How-to-upload-firmware-to-a-NETGEAR-router-using-TFTP
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merlin309 · Answer

So I wrote a program (I mentioned I was a software developer, right?) to try all 256 addresses under 192.168.1.n.&nbsp; Each and every&nbsp;address came back with a timeout error. I would expect a web interface to be looking at port 80, right?&nbsp; Is there another port to try?&nbsp;I'll try it again right after a reset to see if that works any better, but I'm not holding out much hope...&nbsp;Thanks for the suggestions,&nbsp;Mark&nbsp;

st_shaw · Answer

TFTP is port 69, and is UDP not TCP.
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The default IP on other Netgear routers is 192.168.1.1, but others have reported seeing the sats come up using 192.168.1.250, so that's why I said to try that.
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